Albedo remained at the Academy for a while after he woke up. The Academy didn't take chances when something unknown had laid hands on its students, so Albedo underwent a large amount of tests to make sure everything was completely okay.
So the hours passed in a quiet rhythm of examinations and enforced rest and Gwen never left his side during all of this.
She sat through every scan, every pulse of probing mana, every soft-spoken consultation between healers. When Albedo was moved to a secondary chamber for soul stability readings, she followed.
When he was told to lie still while a crystalline array hovered over his chest and mapped the afterimage of the Amethyst breakthrough, she sat at the foot of the bed, legs tucked beneath her, eyes never leaving him.
Only once did she step out, and that was to fetch Diona who had arrived breathless.
